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Plus Little Dragon, Sampha, Thom Yorke, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Oct 12, 2018By Christopher Roberts

While it was a very healthy week for new album releases, so much so that we had eight runner-ups for this week's Album of the Week, it was more of a challenge to find 10 new songs we felt worthy of this week's Songs of the Week list. More

Plus Moonface, Thom Yorke, Sharon Van Etten, Kurt Vile, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Oct 05, 2018By Christopher Roberts

This week Sharon Van Etten and Moonface announced new albums and their lead singles both made this week's Songs of the Week list. Joining them are new standalone singles from Julia Jacklin, Jessie Ware, and SOAK, as well as some singles from upcoming albums, and an eight-minute album track. But our #1 this week is a bonus track that probably shouldn't have been cut from an album released earlier this year. More

Love Is Magic Due Out October 12 via Partisan and Bella Union

Oct 03, 2018By Christopher Roberts

John Grant is releasing a new album, Love Is Magic, on October 12 via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union elsewhere). Now he has shared another song from the album, "Is He Strange." Listen below. More

Plus Danielson, Jungle, Django Django, Farao, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Sep 14, 2018By Christopher Roberts

We spent the week wondering if Hurricane Florence was going to hit us here at our headquarters in Southwest Virginia. Lucky for us, it seems to have angled further south, and while we may still get some heavy rains and winds in the coming days and week, it likely won't be as devastating to Virginia as feared. More

Love Is Magic Due Out October 12 via Partisan and Bella Union

Aug 28, 2018By Christopher Roberts

John Grant is releasing a new album, Love Is Magic, on October 12 via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union in the U.K.). Now he has shared two more songs from the album: the shiny and upbeat "He's Got His Mother's Hips" and the ballad "Touch & Go." The latter is a tribute to Chelsea Manning. More

Love Is Magic Due Out October 12 via Partisan and Bella Union

Aug 07, 2018By Christopher Roberts

John Grant is releasing a new album, Love Is Magic, on October 12 via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union in the U.K.). Previously he shared its six-and-a-half-minute long title track, "Love Is Magic," via a lyric video (it was one of our Songs of the Week). Now "Love Is Magic" has a full-on video. More

Plus The Lemon Twigs, Christine and the Queens, Phantastic Ferniture, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Jul 13, 2018By Christopher Roberts

Hello again. We haven't done a Songs of the Week for almost five weeks, since June 9. We were on vacation from mid to late June and then when we returned there really weren't enough compelling songs last week to justify doing Songs of the Week lists, mainly because of the July 4th holiday being smack dab in the middle of the week and so labels mainly avoided sharing new songs. More

Plus Benjamin Clementine, Moses Sumney, Weyes Blood, Margo Price, Alvvays, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Sep 08, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Of late we've been presenting the eight best songs of the week, but last week we expanded it to a Top 9 because there were so many strong choices. This week we kept it as nine, but because we had trouble narrowing the list down in a week of solid new songs, but few obvious standouts. More

Little Fictions Out Now via Concord

Sep 08, 2017By Christopher Roberts

Elbow released a new album (their seventh), Little Fictions, back in February via Concord. This week the band shared a new version of Little Fictions' closingtrack "Kindling." Renamed "Kindling (Fickle Flame)," this version is redone as a duet with John Grant. More

Plus Susanne Sundfør, Everything Everything, Stars, The Roots, Alvvays, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Jul 28, 2017By Christopher Roberts

It was a busy week for new tracks, with two pop singers (Jessie Ware and Charli XCX) making a strong showing. A couple of classic rockers made a return, and while Ringo Starr's new song (featuring Paul McCartney and others) was pretty standard old rocker fare, one of Mick Jagger's new songs (either "Gotta Get a Grip" or the remix of it by Tame Impala's Kevin Parker) surprisingly almost made our Top 8. More

Grey Tickles, Black Pressure Out Now via Partisan

May 16, 2016By Christopher Roberts

John Grant released his latest album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, last October via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union in the U.K.). Now he has shared a video for "Voodoo Doll." The crazy clip was directed by The Diamond Brothers and finds Grant transforming into a Voodoo doctor. Watch it below. More

Grey Tickles, Black Pressure Out Now via Partisan

Dec 09, 2015By Christopher Roberts

John Grant released his latest album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, back in October via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union in the U.K.). Now he has shared a video for "Down Here." It's about a teenage boy who longs to join a synchronized swim team. Watch it below.

Issue 55 Also Includes Interviews with Julia Holter, Kurt Vile, Neon Indian, Martin Courtney, The Dears, John Grant, Bruce Campbell on Ash vs Evil Dead, the Cast of Back to the Future, and More

Nov 13, 2015By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the November/December 2015 issue, which is available digitally now (via the magazine apps Zinio and Readly), has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. It will also soon be available digitally via Under the Radar's app, as well as Readbug and Kindle. The issue features EL VY (Matt Berninger of The National and Brent Knopf of Menomena and Ramona Falls) on the cover. More

Grey Tickles, Black Pressure Due Out October 2 via Partisan

Jun 23, 2015By Christopher Roberts

John Grant has announced a new album and shared a bloody album teaser trailer. Grey Tickles, Black Pressure is due out October 2 via Partisan. It's the follow-up to 2013's widely acclaimed Pale Green Ghosts and was produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen). More

A Cut From Last Year’s Pale Green Ghosts

Interviews

Love and Laughter

Jan 15, 2016By John Everhart

Since going solo in 2010 after a long stint with the Denver alternative rock band The Czars, John Grant's hit the roll of his life. 2010's Queen of Denmark and 2013's Pale Green Ghostsexhibit Grant's arresting command of pop's rich vocabulary, rife with crisp orchestration and impeccable electro-pop structures. More

Exorcising the Ghosts of Past, Present, and Yet to Come

Sep 20, 2013By Stephen Humphries

John Grant's acclaimed new album includes a track called "Ernest Borgnine." Anyone expecting an ode to the late, great star of Marty and McHale's Navy might be a tad surprised to discover that the song is about contracting HIV. More

Reviews

Love Is Magic

Partisan

Oct 16, 2018By Stephen Mayne

The thing about John Grant is no one has quite figured out what the thing about John Grant is. He's described his new album as "more of an amalgamation of who I am" providing the perfect riposte to those who believe we find ourselves as teenagers before settling into a mold for the rest of life. More

Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

Partisan

Dec 09, 2015By Dan Lucas

In case you had forgotten: it takes just one minute and 39 seconds for John Grant, on his third solo album, to remind us of his capacity to surprise. After introducing the album with, well, "Intro," comes as black a slice of humour as you'll hear on a pop record this year: More

Iceland Airwaves 2015 Day Two: Sóley, John Grant, Sea Change, and Father John Misty